the soviet union contains the seeds of its own destruction. many of the problems we saw at the end begin at the very beginning. i spoke already about the attempt to control all institutions and all parts of the economy and political and social life. when you do that, you create opposition and potential dissonance everywhere. if you tell all artists they have to paint the same way, and one says i do not want to, you have just made him into somebody who might otherwise have been a political -- a-political. if you tell boy scouts they have to be young pioneers, and one group decides they do not like that, so they form a secret underground group, you have just created another group of political opponents. the system created posset -- pockets of resistance. just as important, the other element you can see from the beginning is the gap that is growing between the ideologue the rigid ideology -- between the ideology. bit does not happen that way. it happens but not really. or there is some growth but the west is growing faster. the fact that the syst